5 Things You Didn't Know: Hollywood

3- Hollywood's average income is well below national averages

In 1999, the U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC) put the country’s median, or average, household income in 1999 to be about $44,900. This figure represents all the income from everyone in a household over the age of 15.

Because Hollywood is a district of Los Angeles and not a city by its own right, the numbers are not as clear-cut. However, 1999 figures put the area’s median household income around $34,000.

4- Hollywood's walk of fame is missing some big names

Despite being huge stars, neither Clint Eastwood, Mel Gibson nor Robert Redford has a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame, perhaps because none of them has submitted their names for consideration and been willing to pay the fee, which reportedly runs around $25,000.

Although a famous landmark, and ostensibly a place for Hollywood to honor its own, the Walk of Fame is largely a promotional tool timed with the release of a film or an album.

5- Even Hollywood cemeteries show movies

One thing you didn’t know about Hollywood but might have guessed is that the movie business is everywhere — even in their cemeteries.

Hollywood Forever Cemetery, home to the earthly remains of Mel Blanc, Cecil B. DeMille, Bugsy Siegel, and two of the Ramones, has also been home to the popular summer film series Cinespia since 2002, where films are screened against the mausoleum that holds the bones of icon Rudolph Valentino.

glitz, glam and glory

Hollywood is a place that begs and pleads for your attention. For every famous movie star in Hollywood, there are thousands desperate to become famous movie stars, making Hollywood either the de facto home to the glitterati or the lonesome gathering place of desperate, attention-starved people — a few of whom have a lasting grip on public interest because they know how to make great entertainment.